Americana and Buffolina

Just a quick one...  TehBus had mentioned he was going for lunch at Sartori, since I happened to questioned him on his pick of the best pizza in London.  He said this was worth a look - and definitely one of the better pizzas around.  This is a local spot to my place of work, so thought I'd give it a go.  Looks like a regular modern italian, tables and bar upstairs.  More tables and the pizza oven downstairs.  It was pretty quiet on a Thursday night, and our waiter was nice enough to offer to move us a bench seat after seating us, since a couple of other diners were about to settle up and leave.  We were here for the pizza, so pizza it was.  The pizza comes in 2 forms - metro and, er, regular.  Metro is sold by mass/length.  ie. 250g/25cm, 500g/50cm, and so on.  Haven't seen this before.

I went for an Americana - mozarella, salami and basil.  The other half went for a Buffolina - mozarella and basil latently placed on a basic dough and sauce base. One of the antipasti items boasted that the mozarella was flown in from Naploi.  Whether that applied to her pizza, I'm not sure - but that was some damn good mozarella.  Now this is going to sound like a weird thing to comment on, but the basil was fantastic.  Herby and sweet, but smooth, with no after bite.  Whether it was super duper special organic stuff, or just straight out of a catering supply place, I don't know - but something was going on there.  On mine, the salami was, well, run of the mill salami.  Nothing special to report.  Down to the two most important components of the pizza - the dough and the sauce.  To be honest, the dough was slightly disappointing - or perhaps the actual preparation.  Although a well balanced mixture, it was somewhat soggy.  Wife thinks there was too much oil drizzled on top, which had soaked through and spoiled the bake.  I definitely wanted a little more crispiness from the base.  The sauce though was great - tomato-ey, with just enough sweetness, but not too sweet.  I'll give it another go, since it's local, and that mozarella is the best I've had in recent memory.